Henry Lithgow Roberts (Rhodes 1939)
Balliol College, Oxfored University, Rhodes Scholar. Council on Foreign Relations. Bilderberg.
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada.
Contributed many reviews of books on the Soviet Unio and Eastern Europe to the New York Times Sunday Book review (During Cold War?)[2]
**1970 - “Eastern Europe: Politics, Revolution and Diplomacy”, a collection of essays that appeared in 1970.[2]
1967 to 1972 - Professor of History at Dartmouth College. Leading Scholar on Eastern Europe.[2]
1965 to 1967 - Editor in the Slavic Review.[2]
1964, at the first national meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, he was severe in his criticism of the quality of achievement of many graduate students seeking grants and fellowships. Many, he said, showed “intellectual shabbiness” and a disturbing ignorance of the English language he called “higher illiteracy”.[2]
1961, he reviewed a study by D. F. Fleming, a historian of what has come to be called the revisionist school, “The Cold War and It’s Origins” placing responsibility for the Cold War primarily on the United States. Dr Roberts said the book “deserves serious treatment” and observed, “this no time for smugness or a refusal to confront such as dissenting evaluation…” He then registered “serious disagreement with its approach, interpretations and conclusions.”[2]
[Research Lend-Lease, from 1942 the transfer of nuclear technology to Russia and read The Best Enemy a Money Can Buy by A.C. Sutton, which details the industrial military arming of Russia by U.S. and Allies.]
1959, On a visit to the Soviet union, Dr. Roberts had high praise for the teaching of foreign languages there, but found that in studies in the humanities the scholarly approach was often submerged to ideological concepts.[2]
1956, Later publications included “Russia and America” .[2]
1956 to 1967 - Professor of History at Columbia University. Headed Russian Institute.[2]
1954 to 1967 - Director, Program on East Central Europe at Columbia University.[2]
1 Jan 1953 - Co-Authored “Britain and the United States: Problems in Co-operation”, published by the Council on Foreign Relations, with the aid of the Rockefeller Foundation.[2]
Published Rumania: Political Problems of an Agarian State”.[2]
1942 to 1945 - Research analyst at OSS.[2]
1942 - Ph.D, Yale University.
1939 - Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University.[2]
Died 17 Oct 1972, from Not Known. Age 56.[2]
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